That's stupid.

Can someone explain what the problem is? Plenty of people use dynamic IP addresses, and are able to play the game. Also, what is the security concern? As far as I know, the Linux network stack properly handles most TCP/IP level situations, including reassembling fragments, maintaining state, process...

I think it's necessary to understand why people cannot connect to the game.
If someone can duplicate the problem, contact me and I'll watch network traffic at the server. We can probably find out where the problem is happening, which would be a useful step towards identifying the cause.

I as a player always read the news when it *changes*, and look at it long enough to notice whether it changed. If we keep the login message relevant to people, most will read it, or -- as you say -- at least look if it changed. If we don't make the login message relevant to people, most will not re...

Currently, the "important" login message reads: ##32013-10-30##0 Happy Halloween! Also, some minor bugs have been fixed with Waric and Rossy. Alas poor Waric, Will he ever learn to behave properly? -##2MadCamel##0 ##32013-09-28##0 As you might have found out we had another restart yesterda...

Should we explain the game rules in the TMW wiki?

Currently, that page says

The wiki is not the place to list game rules. The canonical game rules are the ones shown in-game, as available in the git repository.

I found this previous version to be more helpful, but I'm curious what others think.

What do you pay for someone to help you "by accident"?
...or to not help the other guy "by accident"?


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4144 wrote:Another issue what now server totally unsupport day/night.

Oops. You're right.

This post includes a list of what was removed in the latest update: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17670

Does this new testing server do what you want?

If not, please explain what you prefer instead.

I can think of a few ways that day/night light/dark could have effects. It could be a simple graphics/mood change (like some overlay on the client). The graphics examples in the previous thread look really neat! It could be the graphical overlay plus a change in music. It could affect strength or sp...

Yes, the server crashed again. Thanks for reporting it!
I restarted it about 40 minutes after your report.

I'm happy to provide the caliban testing server accounts for this purpose.
So far, nobody asked.

I saw some of the technical discussion about why and how to make the change.
Thank you for translating that so wonderfully into "real world" terms, Melkior!

What about a "quest mode" where drops count towards the total, instead of having people just raid the cupboard? Maybe make this a per-character toggle with the NPC that tracks the leaderboard.

I must admit I'm confused here. In the past, I've set up a [ testing server ] off the same login-server for testing. Accounts were periodically copied across, and people seemed happy with that at the time. GM levels are handled by the login-server. If we run a testing server off the same login-serv...